Congressman Steve Knight has made a public statement calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Russia’s ties to the U.S. election, saying the current fact-gathering process is moving too slowly.

“It is time for an investigation of Russia’s intervention in the U.S. Election,” Knight said in a statement. “There is too much at stake at home and abroad to not take this step. There is so much conflicting information from many sources; Americans deserve the opportunity to learn the truth.”

The congressman said he continues to support the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation, but joined other legislators in supporting the assignment of a special prosecutor to take over the ongoing FBI investigation.

In a KHTS interview, Knight expressed frustration with the current investigation, saying it distracted elected officials from their legislative agendas.

“We’ve gotta start breaking this down, and not getting congressmen overwhelmed by all of this,” Knight said. “So if there’s going to be a special prosecutor, then that’s where we’re going to have to go. Because each one of us congressional members, 535 of us, have our districts [and] have our issues.”

Knight said his personal priorities, aerospace, small business and veterans affairs among others, take up a large amount of time, so any distraction is a problem.

“Working on aerospace and small business and veterans and all the other things that come out take a huge amount of time,” he said. “That’s really why I wanted to come to Congress, to work on these issues. So if you start taking away too much of our time, then we’re not working on those issues and that bothers me.”

The Russian investigation received new scrutiny after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in a move the president’s critics claimed was to stall the investigation into his close allies and aides.

Trump claimed his decision to fire the head of the FBI was because Comey was “a showboat” and “a grandstander” and argued that Comey had thrown the FBI into “turmoil,” during an interview with NBC.

Knight said he believes the next step in the investigation will be decided in the coming weeks, with legislators on both sides of the aisle discussing how to proceed.

“I think that’s going to be a big discussion (this week) in conference, and talking to other members [about] how do we do this,” he said at a recent event in Sand Canyon. “And what speaker [of the House Paul] Ryan and the leadership is thinking, and how we can start moving past some of these things.”

He added the conversation needed to be put to bed as soon as possible, so more important matters could be addressed.

“I am tired of talking about issues that can be resolved and should be resolved,” Knight said.  “Because we have other issues that are pressing.”